General Remarks

Project reports can be a useful monitoring tool for the Legal Holder and the target groups, and at the same time, they serve to keep donor organisations appropriately informed. Indeed, as Misereor is trying to become a 'learning organisation', MISEREOR/KZE (Katholische Zentralstelle für Entwicklungshilfe e.V., the German Catholic Central Agency for Development Aid) needs to have reports so as to be able to learn what is happening in a project and why things are happening the way they do. Such analysis has always been of major importance to us. At the same time, we are convinced reporting can be a very useful monitoring instrument for our overseas partners as they implement their projects and programmes because the writing of reports requires them to consider and analyse in regular intervals what progress has actually been made.

We therefore need regular (mostly half-yearly) project reports to keep us up-to-date with the progress made in project implementation, with the results and developmental impact achieved, and of course in order to enable us to adequately report to our own donors (the German Federal Government, the German public at large, etc.).

The project reports we require include narrative progress reports and financial reports. On completion of the funding period, the Legal Holder is expected to submit a consolidated final report explaining the results and impact achieved over the whole period.